Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-23


own stock. Almost the only fault OF
this variety is that when grated on the
root, its bark cracks and dies on the
sunny side from what is called sur
scald
FRAUD IN CHEAP QUEENS.
No kind of business is without its
frauds. Bee keepers who often have
occasion to purchase queens. either to
supply artificial swarms or to change
the breed, are cautioned that til ose sold
at less than dollar each are apt to be
short-lived. NANNY scarcely beginning
laying before they die. A good queen
should live three years, and In that tim G
propagate an immense number of her
kind. The difference between a queen
properly reared and one forced by the
artificial cheap propaga'ors is unques-
tionably much greater than the differ
ence in price. In this case, a in many
others. the best. though highest priced,
is cheapest in the end
EXTRA RATIONs FOR MILK.
Sir j. Il. Lawes has published pa.
per on the experim ents being made at
Rothamstead to determine TO what ex.
tent the milk of a COW can be increased
IN yield by proper regulation of diet,
and how far the EN- Employment of pur-
chased foods or those of costly nature
such as oilcake or corn meals TO
be recommended as economical.
From this paper it appears that the
rule at Rothamstead has been that
every COW VIII oh dur ng one week has
yielded frc IN twenty-eight to thirty
pounds of milk per day should receive
during the following week four pounds
ct decorticated cake per day, and that
subsequently, for each two pounds per
cay Increase or decrease i'm the mi k
yield the cake shou Ill be increased or
reduced one-fourth Of pound Illus
tratons OF the results of this treat
ment are given. One COW yielded
lO42 gallons between calving an dry
ness. in the third week after calyinp
her yield was AZ gallons per day. At
thirteen weeks after calving she had
not declined two pounds in the weekly
yield, and even after giving milk
twenty-six weeks the milk record show
ed forty one pounds for week. AL
though as much as forty five pounds of
cake was given in "A week, the total
amount was only II pounds to each
~ ~ To-
appears to be evidence hat the ordn- !
AIRY falling off in the yield was consider
ably retarded by the increased amount
of cake consumed
THE RATION FOR PIGS
In recent bulletin, Prof. San |
born gives the result of recent feeding
tests with pigs: He finds that for a
pound OF grain large hog. weighing
800 pounds say, requires twice as
much food as one that weighs fifty
pounds. and that in general the cost of
a pound of growth, instead of being
less after 80 pounds is reached. as is
generally believed in, is always great
er. Having shown that the simple
ration of a l20-pound
'hoat may be less than two per cent. of
is weight, the tests prove slight ad-
vance upon this amount of food makes
A comparatively smaller increase of
weight than where sufficient food is
given to make pound or more day.
hat 1t is. economy to feed young pigs
Up to that limit. The food needed for
his growth is less than that needed for [
'ure maintenance, and, therefore. the
economy of quick fattening. The daily
'rowth increases up to weight Of $50 !
D 200 pounds, and the cost of D
ound's growth increases with seze un- u
II maturity, after which this cost in II
reases mos. rapidly. Continuous u
rowth up to the limit of a pound a
ay is better than to have examining
eriods. The sum of the matter is 81
lat it is most profitable to market 10
lgs young, and that every shoat over u
ght or nine months old should be So
inishcd. In regard to spe cifc foods
appears that skim milk and meals are
e most effective rations fed, that mid "a
ings is the best single food. and that g,
10 meal, when the cobs are finely ;,
'ound, are as efficient food as clear
'rn meal. -Americdn CulttUdtor.